Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT),commonly referred to as Illinois Tech,is a private research university in Chicago,Illinois. Tracing its history to 1890,the present name was adopted upon the merger of the Armour Institute and Lewis Institute in 1940. The university has programs in architecture,business,communications,design,engineering,industrial technology,information technology,law,psychology,and science. It is classified among "R2:Doctoral Universities –High research activity". The university's faculty and alumni include 3 Nobel Prize laureates,2 Fulbright Scholarship recipients,and 1 recipient of the National Medal of Technology.
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston,Illinois,United States. Established in 1851 to serve the former Northwest Territory,it is the oldest chartered university in Illinois. The university's main campus lies along the shores of Lake Michigan in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Edward Roy Becker was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Walter Eugene Massey is an American educator,physicist,and executive. President emeritus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and of Morehouse College,he is chairman of the board overseeing construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope,and serves as trustee chair of the City Colleges of Chicago. During his career,Massey has served as head of the National Science Foundation,director of Argonne National Laboratory,and chairman of Bank of America. He has also served in professorial and administrative posts at the University of California,University of Chicago,Brown University,and the University of Illinois.
Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of the Illinois Institute of Technology,a private research university in Chicago,Illinois. It is the second oldest law school in the state of Illinois.
Bernard "Berny" L. Stone was alderman of the 50th Ward of the City of Chicago,Illinois from 1973 to 2011. The 50th Ward encompasses part of Chicago's far North Side and includes the West Ridge,West Rogers Park and Peterson Park neighborhoods. First elected to the Council in 1973,Stone was the second longest-serving alderman. His tenure spanned the terms of seven Mayors,from Richard J. Daley to Richard M. Daley. Stone was also Vice Mayor of the City of Chicago from 1998 to 2011.
Thomas R. Allen is a judge within the Illinois Circuit Court of Cook County. He was sworn in on December 6,2010. Prior to his judgeship,he was Alderman of the 38th Ward of Chicago,serving since 1993.
The Stuart School of Business (Stuart) is the business school within Illinois Institute of Technology,a private Ph.D.-granting technological university,located in Chicago,Illinois,United States. Illinois Tech's primary campus,known as the Mies Campus in honor of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,is located in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. Stuart offers undergraduate courses at the Mies Campus and graduate courses at Illinois Tech's Conviser Law Center in Downtown Chicago.
Stuart L. Deutsch was Dean and Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law–Newark from 1999 to 2009. Upon stepping down as dean,he was awarded the title of University Professor in recognition of his service as dean. As a university professor,his salary is over $300,000 per year as reported by The Daily Targum,the newspaper of Rutgers University.
The history of Northwestern University can be traced back to a May 31,1850,meeting of nine prominent Chicago businessmen who shared a desire to establish a university to serve the former Northwest Territory. On January 28,1851,the Illinois General Assembly granted a charter to the Trustees of the North-Western University making it the first recognized university in Illinois. While the original founders were devout Methodists and affiliated the university with Methodist Episcopal Church,they were committed to non-sectarian admissions.
Richard H. Herman is a former mathematician who had served as the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2005-2009. He previously served there as Provost and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs since 1998. As provost he garnered support for,and administered,a “faculty excellence”program designed to bring established faculty to the institution. Over the course of his administrative tenure,sponsored research at the university increased by more than 50%.
Charles Marsh Thomson was a lawyer,judge and U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Pradeep Kumar Khosla is an Indian-American computer scientist and university administrator. He is the current chancellor of the University of California,San Diego.
Francis Joseph Magner was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Marquette in Michigan from 1941 to 1947.
Earl B. Dickerson (1891–1986) was a prominent African American attorney,community activist and business executive who successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in Hansberry v. Lee.
Scott Waguespack is a member of the Chicago City Council,representing the 32nd ward since May 2007. The current 32nd ward includes parts of the neighborhoods of Bucktown,Goose Island,Hamlin Park,Lakeview,Lincoln Park,and Roscoe Village. He is a member of the council's Progressive Reform Caucus,and was the chair during 2015–19. During the 2019–23 term,he was selected as the chair of the Finance Committee.
Elizabeth B. Tisdahl is the former mayor of Evanston,Illinois. She was Evanston's third female mayor and second Democratic mayor.
John Carl Walden is an American businessman and the former Chief Executive of Home Retail Group.
Michael Andrew Fitts is an American legal scholar who is the current president of Tulane University in New Orleans,Louisiana,and the Judge Rene H. Himel Professor of Law at the Tulane School of Law. He is a former Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is also the author of numerous articles that have appeared in the Harvard Law Journal and other prestigious scholarly publications.
